TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - An event-based analysis of maternal physiological reactivity following aversive child behaviors
JO  - Psychophysiology
A1  - Gatzke-Kopp, Lisa
A1  - Zhang, Xutong
A1  - Creavey, Kristine L.
A1  - Skowron, Elizabeth A.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Research investigating the association between parents' physiological reactivity and their ability to self-regulate in parenting contexts typically examines the average physiological response across the duration of a dyadic task, conflating reactivity across a multitude of parent and child behaviors. The present study utilized a moving-window analytical technique to generate a continuous, second × second time series of mothers' high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) to conduct an event-based analysis of maternal reactivity in the 10 s following an aversive child event. Analyses examined whether maternal reactivity related to parenting behaviors similarly among maltreating (n = 48) and non-maltreating (n = 29) mother-preschooler dyads. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that maternal behavior was not associated with average HF-HRV reactivity, but mothers who demonstrated an increase in HF-HRV immediately following a negative child event were more likely to engage in behaviors to return the dyad to a positive state. <br><br>FINDINGS were specific to incidents of negative child behavior, and results were not moderated by maltreatment status. These results highlight the value of using an event-based design to isolate reactivity in response to targeted events to understand how physiological reactivity supports parenting.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0048-5772
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14093
ID  - ref1
ER  -